PC: Kyoko

[westedge]

Comments

[factoring]

There were none on the first week. Maybe they increase as the weeks go on.

[The calm hum gets interrupted by a flicker of static like curiosity.]

Whoever writes them could be having fun...?

[westedge]

We really need to stop mentioning crazy ideas before we speak those into existence, too. Wouldn't that leave us with, like...way too many rules that wouldn't even fit? [ sounds miserable, thanks!

and yet there's a little curiosity himself. ]

I don't think it's the reapers. That seems too easy. So...who else?

[factoring]

Six rules by the end?

[She gives a soft hum.]

The Reapers did have a boss. Or another player...?

[The Erased cross her mind, but she doesn't say that.]

[westedge]

Maybe. That's pretty much setting us up for failure unless five of the rules are just "follow rule one."

[ sheesh. ]

That Game Master, right? Could be. [ the erased is a possibility he has thought about, too, but that happens when ghosts exist. he does not think too hard on that possibility though. ] Another player might make sense too though. As a way to shake up the competition and try to trip other teams up.

[factoring]

These two rules don't have anything to do with each other. It'll be a pain to fulfill all the conditions.

[At least they have a full week to do all of them.]

There could be somebody out there that's not biting anyone and not being punished for it... I'm not sure if anybody didn't fulfill the condition last week.

[westedge]

Because walking up to someone and asking if you can bite them is embarrassing as hell? [ dryly. ] Yeah. I'd say it'll be a pain.

[ but he hums in thought at that. ]

I don't know either. Pretty much everybody I talked to had fulfilled it by the time yesterday ended. Maybe we can keep an eye out and see if there's anybody acting suspicious or whatever.

[factoring]

Is it? [ What is it like to not have embarrassment, it's not an emotion Kyoko has. ]

So far everybody I've bitten has bitten me back. It's easy cover.

[westedge]

...[ hold the fuck up. ]

Kyoko...how many people has that been so far.

[ HOW. ]

[factoring]

About four.

[westedge]

That...is a highest number than I expected, actually.

[factoring]

What number were you expecting?

[ Slight static of interest. ]

[westedge]

[ *higher, wow ]

I don't know, like...two? Maybe? The rule just dropped this morning.

[factoring]

I ran into a lot of people. Better to get the work done.

[westedge]

[ thinky. ]

Let me ask you this. What do you define as affection?

[factoring]

It's a fondness for someone.

[The definition of affection.]

[westedge]

Yeah, okay, but...you don't think there's like different degrees of fondness you can feel for a person?

[factoring]

[There's a fuzzy static feeling of interest.]

The rules didn't specify a level of fondness. Are you worried about how you'll be perceived?

[westedge]

[ a squiggle of unease. maybe a little embarrassment. ]

Yes? No? I don't know, I just think it's kind of weird to ask to bite people because...[ ... ] There's always the chance that fondness isn't mutual. You know?

[factoring]

[Is it so strange? Sometimes you care for people and they don't care back, but that doesn't erase the care you feel towards them...]

Jonas, give me your hand?

[westedge]

[ THAT IS A PROBLEM SOMETIMES. but anyway he blinks a little and hands over his hand without thinking about it. ]

Okay? Why?

[factoring]

[She very gently bites the back of his hand, and then lets him go.]

That's why.

[westedge]

[ he sort of just goes ? ? ? for a second. ]

...seriously how the hell do you make this look so easy.

[factoring]

It would be more difficult if I didn't have a mouth.

[ Joking. ]

I'm not the type to get embarrassed by very much.

[westedge]

And she even comes with jokes. [ a little squiggle of nervous amusement, at least. ]

That is something I kind of envy, I won't even pretend otherwise. But it's not even always about embarrassment anyway.

[ he had said it was earlier, but there's still more to it. ]

[factoring]

What is it about? If you want to talk about it.

[ While she notes the contradiction, she doesn't point it out. She doesn't mind either way, really. ]